Beneficial outcome from EEG-neurofeedback on creative music performance, attention and well-being in school children

Gruzelier, John; Foks, Melissa; Steffert, Tony; Chen, M.J.-L.; Ros, Tomas

doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2013.04.005

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“…First, our data showed that the SMR group demonstrated a higher successful training ratio than did the control group. Second, previous studies proposed that the training effect would emphasize daily training improvement (Gruzelier et al, 2014). In our control analysis, we compared the successful training ratio of the first and the last trial within eight sessions.…”

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“…The results of NFT can be affected by day-to-day fluctuations in arousal level (Gruzelier et al, 2014). Thus, in addition to comparing the average successful training ratios of the eight sessions between these two groups, we compared the successful training ratios of the first and last trials of each session for all eight sessions between the two groups to determine whether participants in the NFT group improved within each training session.…”

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“…Furthermore, several lines of studies pertaining to SMR power tuning for enhancing adaptive cortical processing in motor performance have shown promising results. Augmented SMR power resulting from neurofeedback training (NFT) has been identified as a relaxed focus state without somatosensory intervention (Gruzelier, Foks, Steffert, Chen, & Ros, 2014). Similarly, a reduced trait anxiety score and task-processing time during microsurgery were observed after augmented SMR NFT (Ros et al, 2009).…”

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Sensorimotor rhythm (SMR) activity has been related to automaticity during skilled action execution. However, few studies have bridged the causal link between SMR activity and sports performance. This study investigated the effect of SMR neurofeedback training (SMR NFT) on golf putting performance. We hypothesized that preelite golfers would exhibit enhanced putting performance after SMR NFT. Sixteen preelite golfers were recruited and randomly assigned into either an SMR or a control group. Participants were asked to perform putting while electroencephalogram (EEG) was recorded, both before and after intervention. Our results showed that the SMR group performed more accurately when putting and exhibited greater SMR power than the control group after 8 intervention sessions. This study concludes that SMR NFT is effective for increasing SMR during action preparation and for enhancing golf putting performance. Moreover, greater SMR activity might be an EEG signature of improved attention processing, which induces superior putting performance.

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“…The post hoc comparison found lower beta power at post-intervention than that at pre-intervention in the NFB group (17.87 ± 5.78 µV 2 and 21.70 ± 8.55 µV 2 ); however, higher beta power at post-intervention than that at pre-intervention in the control group (13.01 ± 7.88 µV 2 and 10.99 ± 6.58 µV 2 ). (Gruzelier, Foks, Steffert, Chen, & Ros, 2014;Lubar, Swartwood, Swartwood, & O'Donnell, 1995;Thompson & Thompson, 2005). The TOVA is a 21.6-min-long test, in which there are two black squares in a white box.…”

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Proceedings of the 2015 ISNR Conference: Poster Presentations

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Background: Insomnia is common in patients with major depressive disorder (MDD); they complain of falling asleep and awakening in the daytime. One of the neuropsychopathological mechanisms of insomnia is cortical hyperarousal. Previous studies explored cortical activities at pre-sleep and sleep stages among patients with primary insomnia and MDD, as well as the physiological arousal in the daytime among patients with chronic insomnia. There were few studies that explored clearly the psychopathological mechanism among patients comorbid with MDD and insomnia. The purpose of this study was to explore the daytime cortical arousal among patients comorbid with MDD and insomnia.Methods: Fifty patients comorbid with MDD and insomnia were the MDD group that was compared with 35 healthy controls in beta power of electroencephalogram (EEG). All of the participants filled out the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI). The resting EEG with eye-closed were measured for 5 min via 19-channel BrainMaster equipment (BrainMaster Technologies, Inc., Bedford, Ohio), where the spectrum analyses showed the beta power (13-32 Hz; as a cortical hyperarousal index) at Fz and Cz.Results: This study found that: (1) After controlling the medication effects, there were positive correlations between PSQI total score, the habitual sleep efficiency, use of sleep medications, and beta power at Fz and Cz.(2) There were higher absolute and relative beta power at Fz and Cz in the MDD group than that of in healthy controls. (3) After controlling the medication effect, the MDD group with high sleep disturbance had higher relative beta power at Fz and Cz than that of the MDD group with low sleep disturbance. Conclusion:This study indicated that poor sleep quality was associated with daytime cortical arousal. Patients with MDD had higher cortical arousal at the frontal and central areas than that of healthy controls. These phenomena may reflect the daytime cortical hyperarousal that was found among patients comorbid with MDD and insomnia. Background: The study is based on an underlying neuropathological model of autism, which emphasizes "minicolumnar" pathology (Casanova, 2007;Casanova et al., 2006) and cortical lateral inhibition deficits resulting in behavioral abnormalities and executive dysfunctions. We propose that neuromodulation based on lowfrequency repetitive TMS over prefrontal area will enhance lateral inhibition through activation of inhibitory double bouquet interneurons and will be accompanied by EEG alteration that can be operantly conditioned using neurofeedback (NFB) immediately after rTMS session. In prior studies in children with ASD we demonstrated post-TMS improvements in executive functions Sokhadze, El-Baz, Sears, Opris, & Casanova, 2014), as well as positive effects of prefrontal neurofeedback in ASD (Wang et al., 2014). In the current study each rTMS session was followed by NFB training that we predicted to result in a synergetic response. References Objectives:The overall aim of the study was to investigate behavioral respon...

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“…Given that we have identified no studies exploring this preventive potential, a key direction for future research would be to identify what benefits might be gained from participation in improvised music without a therapeutic remit and role, for example in a community music or educational setting. There may for instance be benefits in terms of stress relief and overcoming negative emotions or self-perceptions; it is noteworthy for instance that a recent study finding positive effects on EEG-neurofeedback on children on the creative music performance, attention and wellbeing of children in school used musical improvisation as one of the outcome behaviours (Gruzelier et al 2014). Qualitative research would help to consider how and whether improvisers more generally perceive links between their practice and their sense of wellbeing.…”

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Musical improvisation and health: a review

MacDonald

Wilson

2014

Psych Well-Being

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There is an expanding field of research into how making or listening to music can improve wellbeing. As a spontaneous, social, creative nonverbal process unfolding in real time, musical improvisation between individuals is a unique psychological phenomenon distinct from other areas of musical activity. It may therefore have an influence on health or wellbeing distinct from other musical behaviours, and from other components of a musical intervention. Given the psychological complexity of this behaviour it is important to establish the parameters of improvisation, the effects on health or wellbeing that are perceived or claimed for it, and any mechanisms understood to bring about these effects. To establish this, literature was reviewed that explicitly investigates or theorises about the capacity of musical improvisation to influence health or wellbeing. Only work examining its application within music therapy was identified. The behaviours and interactions that constitute improvisation during music therapy are clearly defined. Improvisation in music therapy is seen to have specific benefits for particular populations including the amelioration of neurological damage, improvements in mental health conditions, reductions in stress and anxiety, and improved communication and joint attention behaviours in children with autistic spectrum disorders. Four unique characteristics of musical improvisation are identified as underlying these effects: its potential to link conscious with unconscious processes, the demands on attention of absorption in a creative process, the non-verbal social and creative interaction experienced, and the capacity for expressing difficult or repressed emotions without having to articulate these verbally. Although improvisation is undertaken in music therapy for a purpose distinct from that of improvisation in other contexts, its processes can be seen as substantively similar, suggesting that improvising in itself may offer intrinsic benefits to health or wellbeing to broader populations and outwith the therapeutic context. Based on this review, a model is proposed for how improvisation in music can influence the health or wellbeing of those involved.

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Beneficial outcome from EEG-neurofeedback on creative music performance, attention and well-being in school children

Cited by 80 publications

References 38 publications

Sensorimotor Rhythm Neurofeedback Enhances Golf Putting Performance

Sensorimotor Rhythm Neurofeedback Enhances Golf Putting Performance

Proceedings of the 2015 ISNR Conference: Poster Presentations

Musical improvisation and health: a review

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